Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-17
LAST OF THE STATE FAIR.

rhe Most successfal Fair Connecticut
 Has Ever Held-Over Six Hundred
 New Haveners Present on Thursday | -Yesterday's DOings-PrOtest of the | Grangers-O. III. LoOm mis & Co. Also |
 Enter a Protest Against the Award of |
 First Premium.
 MER1DEN, Sept. 16.-The State fair ended | to-day. The officials say it has been the | most successful fair that the State of Connec- l ticut has vet held. The first day was dis l couraging one, and but for the school chil- | dren the attendance would have been very small The saying that bad beginning makes good ending has proven true in this case The attendance yesterday is said to have been even more than ten thousand, reaching nearly twelve thousand. It was great day for Meriden, for never in it's his- tory have so many people been gathered to- gether on any one day. Ticket Agent States in New Haven says that nearly six hundred people bought tickets there for Meriden yes terday.
 The attendance to-day was not more than three thousand. The great success of the affair is due good deal to the untiring eff forts of President Bill and Secretary Andros US result udS tSIoonUAy SuA PAASCN SAOAA'
 There was good steady breeze to day and the man who had overcoat was very lucky. It has been decided not to hold the fair over until tomorrow. In consequence the park was all confusion this afternoon, as everybody was packing their things and leaving.
 The interest seemed to be all centered in the trotting, which was better than yester- day. Truman A. Warren, of New Haven, was one of the judges to-day.
 2:30 CLASS.
 Prince c. was entered but did not appear. The starters were Miss Miller, Harry D., Nut wood, jr, and Kittie c.
 First heat-Miss Miller ran considerably in first half, Nutwood indulged in the same trick in the second half, and the heat ended in 2:34, with Miss Miller first, Harry D. second, Nutwood, jr., third, and Kittie c. fourth. Judge Holconb warned each driver that there must hereafter be more trotting and not so much running and yelling. Second heat-In this heat the drivers got their horses down to business and faster time was made than at any other time during the l fair Miss Miller took the lead and for the ! first half mile all four were almost together. Kittie c. conducted herself admirably com | ing down the homestretch. Excitement ran high. The two were trotting neck and neck, f but Kittie c. got her nose to the wire with I but an inch to spare; time 2:32A. | Third heat-For the first half the contest | was pretty one. Kittie c. was never head | ed, although it looked as if she would be by | Miss Miller on the homestretch, but the latter broke just before she passed under the wire. ] Kittie c. s time was faster than in the pre- ceding heat, being 2:32.
 | Fourth heat-Kittie 0. lost the lead on the quarter by acting badly, and Nutwood and l Harry D. passed her. Kittie o. had good l lead on the half, with Miss Miller second. On l the last quarter it was nip and tuck between l Miss Miller and Harry D. for second place. l Miss Miller again broke as she went under the l wire. Time, 2:3312.
 l Kittie O. took first money, $100; Miss Mil
 Ter second, $50; Harry D. third, $50; Nut
 wood, jr., fourth, $sO
 Charles Smart, Meriden, b Miss Mil
 V, L. Mead, Brooklyn, N r., blk liar
 Jo6n shiilingiaw;, Waterbury, Nut
 G, "S1u' v Nelson, Bridgeport. jim Kit
 Tfme-s:si, TH 2:asa, a:ss, a:ssh. | 2:50 CLASS.
 | Amy Belle did some good work in this
 race. In all the heats she trotted without g l break, while all the others did so more ol less Joe would generally break on the start ] and fall into last place, and then on the las half Nelson would make him do some beau
 tiful work.
 First heat-Amy Belle took the lead an6
 kept it to the finish. She was closely crowd
 ed on the first half. Joe broke on the star and fell way behind. In the third quarter
 he passed all but Western Boy and on tht
 last quarter he headed him. But coming
 down the homestretch Joe went all to piece:
 and Western Boy, who had trotted steadily throughout the heat, passed him. Ella 0 and Clara J. were both distanced. Time
 2:3611.
 Second heat, 2:50-After reconsideration
 the judges let Ella c. in. Joe did some fin
 trotting in this heat. Amy Belle held th
 lead, with Western Boy almost even witl
 her. After the first quarter Nelson let Jo work he is capable of doing. Western Boy
 acted badly on the last quarter and Jo I passed him. There was wild enthusiasm
 over this heat, as within only few feet 0
 the wire Joe succeeded in heading Amy, wh
 had been trotting steadily all along. Ella l was surely distanced, and the judges stucl l to their decision this time. Time 2:331a. Third heat-Joe did not do anything unti the last half when he went ahead of all bu
 Amy, but passed her on the last quarter ant
 finished good first. Time 2:35A.
 Fourth heat-Joe broke again on the frs
 quarter and the others passed him, Amy il l the lead with Western Boy second. On tn
 half Amy had loug lead on all the others
 Joe passed Ed Cirney on the third quarte and on the last quarter brought up in tn : lead and finished first. Time, 2:37a. Joe took first money, s100; Amy Bell second, $50; Western Boy third, $50, an
 Ed Cirney fourth, $20.
 SUMMARY.
 } James H. Lewis, stratford, Ed Cir 3 G. " Nelson Bridgeport, b Joe. l J. P. Rodgers, New York, blk m Amy | l William B. Smith, Hartford, m Clara I S. F. Smith, New Haven, g Western
 fife I s:56.5, 2:55,6, s:s5sl a:s7s4.
 DOUBLE TEAMS.
 The last race of the day was between th 3 l double teams-named horses. N. w. HincH
 ley, of New Haven, had Queen Ray and 8 R. H. hitched together; and J. E. Hubinge Q also of New Haven, had Essex Boy and Ere l H. entered.
 In the first heat Queen Ray and R R. [ 3 were never headed. Essex Boy and Fred E 8 were started a considerable distance behin . the other two teams and therefore came Q last. Essex Boy and Fred H. kept the lea - in the second heat for the first half, br V Queen Ray and R. R. H. pulled ahead in tt t third quarter. Both teams trotted in exec @ lent form. Queen Ray and R. R. H. too 2 first money, $50, and the second and thi1 ,. money was divided between the other two. p N, W. Hinckley, New Haven. Queen Ray and s J. E. Hubinger, New Haven. Essex Boy and - fTeu Il William B. Smith, Hartford, Jeffersonian and " Lady Dolphin. -.......... e Time-24954, 2:46N.
 Some of the grangers are dissatisfied an n are very desirous of holding fair of the n own after this year at Charter Oak Park e Hartford, and cut loose from the State Agr
 cultural society's fair. Hartford county me = are urging such action, but President Bil
 Secretary Andros and other in1uenti n grangers are opposed to it and are fghtin a it. The claim of the discontented granger ,, is that only $500 is devoted to their depar r ment, while over 5000 is given to the othe - agricultural exhibitors. If they go they sa
 | the State association fair will be broken uI t | as the exhibitors of agricultural implement
 will follow the grangers. The movement, l | is thought, will not prove successful. t At meeting of the grangers last night tt g following resolutions were passed:
 Whereas the eighteenth annual exhibitio - l by the farmers of Connecticut of the agricul ? tural products of the State has been han : | pered and hindered by the New York, Ne'